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CALLIE Thorne can’t wait for the winter. On snowy days, the actress likes to snuggle up in her apartment with a fire crackling in the fireplace and watch the snowflakes land on her skylight. That’s when, she says, “I’m on planet ecstasy.”

The “Rescue Me” star (she plays the troublesome Sheila Keefe) has good reason to be happy. Her 728-square-foot Meatpacking District one-bedroom has two working fireplaces and two skylights – one of each in the living room and in the bedroom – a Jacuzzi and lots of closet and storage space.

“I moved here in the very beginning of 2002,” the 37-year-old Thorne says. “I own it. Before this, I’d always rented, always had roommates. But in 1997, I got the first real paying job I ever had [playing a cop on “Homicide”] and I started squirreling money away.”

When she first walked into the condo and took in the 22-foot ceilings and the sunshine pouring in through the windows and skylights, “It was literally a sunburst,” she says. “I knew immediately this was for me.”

Thorne paid $640,000 for the apartment, and believes if she sold it today, she’d get well over a million.

She decorated the place with a range of furniture, from flea-market finds to a $2,000 distressed leather armchair. Her bedroom features an elegant four-poster bed with roses and vines entwined over the top (she clicks a switch and the roses give off a soft light) and a mirror that hangs over the fireplace mantel – even though she’s too short to see herself in it.

Thorne covered the walls of the apartment with some of her favorite pictures, including a poster of a French magazine cover that shows Can-Can girls dancing through a haze of cigarette smoke.

“Actually, an ex-boyfriend bought it for me,” Thorne says. “It’s one of the nicer memories I have of him.”

Other women are featured on the walls: Shakespeare’s Ophelia floating in water, a photo of Carole Lombard with a black eye and one of Greta Garbo looking pensive. There’s an etched mirror that Thorne’s great-grandmother carried with her from Russia. She also has a photo of her mother taken the year before Thorne was born. The resemblance is so startling that most people who see it think it’s a picture of Thorne.

The living room walls are decorated with posters from her favorite films, including “West Side Story,” “Bullitt,” and “The Petty Girl.”

“They all have red accents,” Thorne says. “Anything that matches is a happy accident. So, when I was putting these up, I thought, ‘Look at me! I have a plan.'”

In addition to “Rescue Me,” Thorne has been on “ER,” “Law & Order: CI” and “Law & Order: SVU,” among other TV shows. She’s also starring in a movie called “Welcome to Academia.” But it’s “Rescue Me” that is most special to her.

“The guys on the show are my boys,” she says. “They’ve been my brothers. They look out for me and tease me.”

When Thorne isn’t working, she enjoys spending time with her sister and her sister’s family (who live down the block) and with her Cairn terrier, Mookie.

“Mookie is my best friend, my little brother, my favorite everything,” Thorne says. “People ask if he was named after Mookie Wilson, the baseball player. If I’m flirting, I say ‘yes,’ and they think that’s cool. But he was actually named after an Italian brand of milk.”

Callie Thorne’s Favorite Things

– Her dog, Mookie

– The two working fireplaces

– The two skylights

– All the wall space: “I like having lots of dreamy, smoky ladies on my walls,” she says.